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There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.
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Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. "For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.
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Gruff, I said, I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what's in a fae woman's mind.
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He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a.44 revolver in his pocket.
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If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.
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Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.
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I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.
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Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.
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Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.
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Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
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Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?" "The plan is insane," Ehren said. "YOU are insane." He looked around the inside of the tent. "I'll need some pants.
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Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.
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Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.
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Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.
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I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn't feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn't like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.
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Star Trek? I asked her. Really? What? she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly, I said. Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking. She sniffed. This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It's okay to like both. Blasphemy and lies, I said.
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So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.
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Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you.
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We're all human.
We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.
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Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.
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Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.
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Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.
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Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.
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If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
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Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Born:
October 26, 1971
(age 52)
Bio:
Jim Butcher is a New York Times best selling author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He is also the author of the Codex Alera series, and the Cinder Spires series.
Known for:
Storm Front (2000)
The Aeronaut's Windlass (2015)
Skin Game (2014)
Fool Moon (2001)
Cold Days (2012)
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